Political reforms and Magufuli loyalists within Tanzania’s ruling party could shape Samia Suluhu Hassan’s candidature for the 2025 elections.
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Electoral reforms are urgent for Tanzania because local elections are scheduled for December 2024.
Current reforms in Tanzania lack popular participation and legal safeguards.
Dodoma will need to address social issues such as increased accommodation and recreational facilities as population grows
Tanzania’s six-year ban on political rallies shows how the president’s power can override the constitution.
The Tanzanian president’s reform drive has endeared her to the populace but will also embolden opposition to her political ambitions.
After years of censorship, opposition parties have to – all at once – rejoin public debates, reorganise and remotivate demoralised supporters.
Tazara upgrade requires huge capital but new tracks could be incompatible with the existing Southern Africa rails.
President Samia Hassan has set Tanzania on a change of course – time will tell if the pattern holds and addresses the country’s challenges.
President Samia Hassan may have been an ‘accidental president’ but Tanzania’s leader has set out to showcase her own political strategy.
Hassan is winning party loyalists, and has launched a diplomatic charm offensive ahead of 2025 polls.
The emerging partisan politics and the polarisation it creates is a new threat for Tanzania.
Despite the relative political stability over the years, Tanzania needs a new constitution to address contemporary challenges and strengthen institutions.
Hassan may prove the right sort of politician to usher in a new era of bipartisan politics, less populist and authoritarian and more collegial.
Hassan, like Magufuli before her, has taken office without her own political base and will also have to contend with revived factional manoeuvring.
She has been described as compassionate, rational and calm – attributes that are a far departure from her former boss.
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